Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] a " in BNC.

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1 See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face
2 I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin .
3 I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover .
4 I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping .
5 So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get .
6 I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all .
7 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
8 I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world .
9 If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road .
10 And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot .
11 I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good .
12 I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along …
13 Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening .
14 I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room .
15 Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference .
16 He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages .
17 I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement .
18 Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter .
19 I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water .
20 This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis .
21 Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns .
22 Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain .
23 I had been getting a lot of this .
24 I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house .
25 In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them .
26 ‘ You did n't tell me you could ride , ’ she said , rather irritated , as if I had been keeping a secret from her .
27 I had been studying a guide-book to Zamora before we left .
28 Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes .
29 I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army .
30 Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too .
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